Your IKEA furniture is plain but add some cool lighting and suddenly that dresser with the name you can’t pronounce becomes the background to a futuristic cyber story. Lighting is so important for setting the mood of a design and the Nanoleaf Aurora is the perfect modular lighting for the future.

It’s always nice to see folks thinking outside of the box, and this Thinkway Touch Mini PC [translate] is certainly different. This is basically what you get when you cross an 8.9 inch touchscreen with a slightly deranged PC designer living in a dungeon. But it’s cute.

Rumor has it that if you laid all the old 8mm film footage that is lying around in people’s attics and basements end to end, it would stretch from here all the way round my Aunt Fran’s backyard. Or something. In other words there’s still a lot of important history locked up in dark cupboards across the world. Now you can unlock it.

So back in the day there were these things called playgrounds. And a certain class of human called kids. And these ‘kids’ used to employ some thin things called ‘legs’ to do something called ‘running around’ as a form of outdoor entertainment. But that was then. Now, we’re in a whole new era. Right?

Even if you don’t like cats, you’re likely familiar with the iconic Kit Cat Clock. This black and white kitty has been gracing kitchens with its kitsch since the 1930s. Now you can get the World’s Largest Kit Cat Clock in case the standard size wasn’t enough.

Our technology is moving in a mobile direction and it’s unlikely that it will change course. To that end, you’re probably finding that you need more than one charger for all your most used mobile devices. The Smart Charging Stand is the attractive mobile charging stand that’s good for all your devices.

The world has changed drastically in the last 30 years but these subtle changes aren’t very noticeable when you live with them every single day. With Timelapse, part of Google’s Earth Engine, you can see how the world has changed from the 80s till today.

Fashion and sneakers have been a bonded pair for a while. But customizing a super cool shoe for yourself ? Definitely a cool idea. Vixole is the first customizable “smart” sneaker. Launched on Indegogo, it’s clearly a winner, standing at 516% of it’s intended goal with some time yet to go. These amazingly innovative sneakers have a built-in flexible monochrome LED display on the back of each shoe. Personalize your sneakers by choosing from choices and photos you upload from…

The Amazon Echo and Echo Dot hands free ‘intelligent’ home controllers have been on the market for some time now, but with the new release of the Echo Dot Version 2.0 we thought it was a great excuse to check out some state of the art tech. Especially since Amazon is constantly extending the features of the Echo and the rather clever voice assistant called Alexa. Of course there’s no shortage of rivals – step up Siri, Cortana and Google...

Most people’s important email accounts can be synched up through Gmail for one stop email checking but this isn’t the case for everyone. If you find that you’ve got multiple accounts and need to be able to access them from your phone (or other mobile device), TypeApp is an all in one email option.